The world turned upside down

Legend has it that the English ballad ‘The World Turned Upside Down’ was the tune played by the British military band when Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781 during the American War of Independence.

It would be an appropriate anthem for Donald Trump and his supporters as he has certainly turned the world of American politics on its head.

But the fallout goes wider than that as the world has suddenly become more volatile, uncertain and anxious.